Wednesday, May 21, 2014

This is about the decision of All Saints Episcopal Church in Cincinnati to host a sacrilegious, simulation of two Catholic sacraments: holy orders and holy Mass.

I wrote to the rector of the parish on Sunday, and received a reply this afternoon:

Dear Fr FoxThe event which took place this past Friday was a venue rental and was in no way sponsored by All Saints Episcopal Church or the Diocese of Southern Ohio.BeannachtRev Eileen O'Reilly
A commenter on another thread said he received an almost identical response.

Here is what I wrote back to Rev. O'Reilly:

Dear Rev. O'Reilly:I appreciate you writing back. You should know that I have written about this on my blog, and I will continue to do so, because this is a subject of great importance to me as a Catholic, as I'm sure you can appreciate.I will be very candid in saying that response doesn't satisfy me, and I suspect that doesn't surprise you. There are many other questions I want to ask, in order to understand how this happened. I won't pester you, but I will tell you I've posted those questions at frmartinfox.blogspot.com. And if you are * in dialoguing further with you about this, I would be grateful.Sincerely,Father Martin Fox
* Somehow the word "interested" dropped out.

Fr. Fox, at least you received an irish blessing - you lucky duck! There was no name, no beannacht's, or anything on my curt response. I'll admit that you may have a little more "juice" in such matters.

I've not yet received a response from the Episcopal Bishop for Southern Ohio.

Well, I haven't discussed it with the Archbishop, but he knows about the situation, because the media asked him about it, and a response was given. So that most likely means he's checked it out to some degree.

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I am the parish priest at Saint Remy Parish in Russia, Ohio, in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati.
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